METHODS IN POSTPHENOMENOLOGY1 April 2014
Intent of the series• To explore postphenomenological approaches to research
practices
• To develop the concept through multiple perspectives and disciplines
• To build a network for exchange and collaboration
Larger Programme• Session 1: 1 April (Today!)
• James Ash, Jethro Brice
• Session 2: 19 May (same time/location)• Paul Simpson, Maria Fannin
• Session 3: Sometime in late June or July• TBD
Phenomenology• Branch of Continental philosophy initiated by Edmund
Husserl
• The study of ‘phenomena’ – whatever appears in the manner in which it appears.
• Paying attention to the nature of consciousness as actually experiences
• David Seamon – uses phenomenology to describe the underlying, essential qualities of human experience and the world in which that experience happens
Phenomenology• In tension with Descartes
• Merleau-Ponty – philosopher of the body
• The body is the basis and conduit of knowledge
• Replaces the ‘objective’ Cartesian body with the body-as-subject - subject and object as mutual interrelation
Towards postphenomenology• Peter-Paul Verbeek (Philosophy of Technology)
• Verbeek, P (2008) ‘Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality: A postphenomenological Analysis’ Human Studies, Vol 31. 1 (11-26).
• Subject/Object co-shape and constitute one another.
• Nonrepresentational Theory (Geography)
• John Wylie (Landscape Phenomenology)• Wylie, J (2007) Landscape. Routledge: London
• Emma Roe • Roe, E & Greenhough, B (2013) Experimental partnering: interpreting
improvisatory habits in the research field. Int’l Journal of Social Research and Methodology.
Postphenomenology• Rejects ‘view from nowhere’ (per good ole
phenomenology)
• Moves away from essentialism and towards phenomenological structures such as ‘multistability’ (See: Don Ihde)
• Non-subjectivistic (decentres human)
• Interrelational ontology (co-shaping)
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